{"id":35773,"date":"2019-03-13T21:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35773"},"modified":"2019-03-13T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:58:36","slug":"sardar-azmoun-is-showing-why-he-shouldve-been-celtics-record-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/13\/sardar-azmoun-is-showing-why-he-shouldve-been-celtics-record-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sardar Azmoun is showing why he should&#8217;ve been Celtic&#8217;s record signing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HITC &#8211; GLASGOW, <strong>Celtic\u00a0tried and failed to lure\u00a0Sardar Azmoun\u00a0to the\u00a0Scottish Premiership and now he&#8217;s playing in Russia for\u00a0Zenit St Petersburg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is almost a year now since Sardar Azmoun was tipped to become Celtic\u2019s new record signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><g class=\"gr_ gr_102 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"102\" data-gr-id=\"102\">According<\/g> to The Sunday People. the Scottish Premiership champions were hoping to lure the so-called \u2018Iranian Messi\u2019 to Glasgow despite interest from the likes of Everton, Wolves and Fulham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a \u00a310 million price tag, Azmoun would have been the most expensive player in Celtic\u2019s history. And on current form, it looks like he would have been worth every penny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite continued links with a move to British shores, Azmoun swapped one Russian club for another in January. He left Rubin Kazan to join the giants of Zenit St Petersburg for a fee of \u00a310.5 million, according to\u00a0L\u2019Equipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now he is in the form of his life. Azmoun has scored five times in his last four games for Zenit, including a clinical double in a Europa League victory against Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessed with a ruthless finish and a terrific leap, Azmoun looks more like a young Cristiano Ronaldo than Lionel Messi right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with Celtic\u2019s strikers enduring rather mixed seasons, Odsonne Edouard struggling to convince while Leigh Griffiths remains absent, it is tempting to wonder whether Azmoun would have been worthy of becoming the club\u2019s first ever eight-figure signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HITC &#8211; GLASGOW, Celtic\u00a0tried and failed to lure\u00a0Sardar Azmoun\u00a0to the\u00a0Scottish Premiership and now he&#8217;s playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1431,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35775,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773\/revisions\/35775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}